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You're still older, we were just geekier at a younger age.

Did anyone else customize their modem init strings? I remember having something like "AT&FM1L1V1S11=60".

S11=60 reduced the length of each digit's tone from the default of 95ms to 60ms, so I got connected faster. Every millisecond counted.

I did enjoy the BBS experience, but I've flushed most of my knowledge, apparently. I do remember having to alter the modem init strings, but I can't say what I did.

Correction, +++ would put the modem into command mode, but not disconnect. Although most people wouldn't know that ATO would put them back into data mode, and would eventually get frustrated and tell their software to hang up. Also getting someone to press Ctrl+S would mess them up, as that's the software flow control command to stop sending. Ctrl+Q was to start again.

I'm 33. I was one of the youngest people on the local BBS, and was actually made a co-sysop at 13 (mostly to reign me in and make me use my powers for good instead of evil).

I had a custom init string, I can't remember what it was anymore.

Though I do remember that the VIC-20 screen memory started at 7680 and colour memory was at 38400 (and the offset between them was 30720)... in fact I remember almost all the decimal addresses for useful things.

I haven't owned a VIC-20 since I was in elementary school, but all that stuff stuck.

Bren R.

Yeah, truth be told, I'm not one of the younger members here. Tom nailed it though, I just never fully realized/developed my inner Geek. Much Geek is Greek to me.

You can be geek about some things and not about others. I'm sure you're much photo-geekier than most of us, for example.

I'm the same age as Peter and Chris, but I never used BBSes. So that makes them old and me young?

Is everybody except Mark and Me an IT Geek? : runs screaming from the room :

Of course you could say I am a Bird Geek.

No, Rob, I just like hanging around with Geeks.